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President John F. Kennedy attends a ceremony establishing the German Development Service (Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst), or German Peace Corps, at Villa Hammerschmidt. Left to right: President Kennedy; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; President of West Germany, Dr. Heinrich Lübke; Chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer; interpreter for the German Foreign Ministry, Heinz Weber (partially obscured); Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, Walter Scheel (mostly obscured); an unidentified member of the clergy. Bonn, West Germany (Federal Republic).
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President John F. Kennedy (center left) visits with attendees of a ceremony establishing the German Development Service (Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst), or the German Peace Corps, at Villa Hammerschmidt; Eunice Kennedy Shriver stands in center. Also pictured: President of West Germany, Dr. Heinrich Lübke; Chief of Protocol of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ehrenfried von Holleben; Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, Walter Scheel; interpreter for the German Foreign Ministry, Heinz Weber. Bonn, West Germany (Federal Republic).
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JFKWHP-KN-C29295
President John F. Kennedy (center, on top landing) delivers remarks outside Altes Rathaus (Old City Hall) in Bonn, West Germany (Federal Republic). Also standing on top landing: Chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer (partially obscured); Mayor of Bonn, Wilhelm Daniels; Director of Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) in Berlin and translator for President Kennedy, Robert Lochner; West German Ambassador to the United States, Karl Heinrich Knappstein; White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn. Standing on stairs at right: Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Libeth Werhahn, daughter of Chancellor Adenauer; Cecilia McGhee, wife of U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, George McGhee. Also pictured: Director of the United States Secret Service, James J. Rowley; Secret Service agent, Sam Sulliman.